Dad Faces Sodomy Charges

March 29, 1995|By PATTI ROSENBERG Daily Press

WILLIAMSBURG — A James City County man has been arrested for sodomizing his teen-age daughter - and with having a gun on school grounds when he went to pick her up at James Blair Middle School on Monday morning, according to police.

The man, in his 30s, is being held without bond at the Williamsburg-James City County Jail. The Daily Press is not publishing his name to avoid identifying his daughter.

School officials called police when the man came to school about 11 a.m. wearing a shoulder holster carrying a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun. The gun was loaded, the report said.

At the same time he arrived at school, his daughter was talking to someone from the Department of Social Services about being sexually assaulted by her father, the police report says.

It was apparently just a coincidence that he showed up while his daughter was talking to a social services employee, police said.

The man said he was there to withdraw his daughter from school because the family was moving to Louisiana on Thursday, according to Investigator Frank Brookman of the Williamsburg Police Department.

The father said the reason he had a gun was because he was carrying around a lot of cash, Brookman said.

He also had another loaded magazine in a pocket, as well as a pocket knife and a small container of what appeared to be marijuana, Williamsburg police said.

Williamsburg police charged the man with possession of marijuana and possession of a firearm on school grounds.

James City County police charged him with oral and anal sodomy, said Capt. Ken Middlebrook. The allegations involve multiple incidents over the past few months, Middlebrook said.

The man told James City County police that he was unemployed, Middlebrook said. But he told Williamsburg police that he was self-employed in the security field, Brookman said.